The Actors
Frances McDormand
"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it." - Frances McDormand on the set of FargoBlood Simple - Abby, Raising Arizona - Dot, Miller's Crossing - Mayor's Secretary, Fargo - Marge Gunderson, The Man Who Wasn't There - Doris Crane
Jon Polito
"I saw Blood Simple and Raising Arizona and I was in love. I read the script in August, and I said 'I only want to play Johnny Caspar.' They weren't looking for anybody my age -- I'm 38, and it's written for a 55-year-old man. They wanted me to read for all the other gangster characters, but I said no." - Jon Polito on getting the Johnny Caspar roleMiller's Crossing - Johnny Caspar, Barton Fink - Lou Breeze, The Hudsucker Proxy - Mr. Bumstead, The Big Lebowski - DaFino, The Man Who Wasn't There - Creighton Tolliver
Steve Buscemi
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig." - Steve BuscemiMiller's Crossing - Mink, Barton Fink - Chet, The Hudsucker Proxy - Beatnik Barman, Fargo - Carl Showalter, The Big Lebowski - Donny
John Goodman
"I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. I started going through their résumé pile, looking at actors, and just kinda made myself at home in my obnoxious way. I think they cast me because I had a baby face and that was a motif of the film." - John Goodman on how he met and started his relationship with the Coen Bros.Raising Arizona - Gale, Barton Fink - Charlie Meadows, The Hudsucker Proxy - Rockwell Newsreel Announcer, The Big Lebowski - Walter Sobchack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Big Dan Teague
John Turturro
"I mean usually with movies, if you're dark, you're a bad guy. That's it. I turned down a million bad guy things." - John TurturroMiller's Crossing - Bernie Bernbaum, Barton Fink - Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski - Jesus Quintana, O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Pete Hogwallop
George Clooney
"I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006." - George ClooneyO Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ulysses Everett McGill, Intolerable Cruelty - Miles Massey
Billy Bob Thornton
"It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter." - Billy Bob ThorntonThe Man Who Wasn't There - Ed Crane, Intolerable Cruelty - Howard D Doyle
